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Quote by Jacques Barzun
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. - J

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. – Jacques Barzun

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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on ones share in the worlds work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done. – Jacques Barzun

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Intelligence
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Jacques Barzun
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Tennis belongs to the individualistic past – a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world. – Jacques Barzun

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Tennis
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Jacques Barzun
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It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. – Henry Moore

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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. – Loren Eiseley, The Night Country, 1971

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Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isnt any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument. – Jerry Saltz

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If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf. – Thomas Fuller

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